Logo
Quote by Gustave Flaubert
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I w

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. – Gustave Flaubert

Other quotes by Gustave Flaubert

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. – Gustave Flaubert

Category:
Art
Author
Gustave Flaubert
Read Quote

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. – Gustave Flaubert

Category:
work
Author
Gustave Flaubert
Read Quote

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature. – Gustave Flaubert

Category:
Nature
Author
Gustave Flaubert
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Age
category

I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, Yeah, I know what you mean, and stare at their mobiles. – Jack White

Category:
Age

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. – Andre Maurois

Category:
Age

At my age you dont go into fatherhood lightly. – Rod Stewart

Category:
Age

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. – Virginia Woolf

Category:
Age

Random Quotes

New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. Its not just a residual of life its a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. Its our culture. – Wendell Pierce

Category:
Marriage

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just. – Ginny Brown-Waite

Category:
Faith

The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice. – Joel Fuhrman, Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor’s Program fo

Category:
Fasting

I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards. – Donna Rice

Category:
Anger